13 min read Early Robotics Bubbles ~ The Arduino Dog Robot with an XBee Radio (Part 1) Curt April 6, 2025 TL;DR: I skinned a dog toy, slapped an Arduino on its posterior, and then commanded it to move over radio…
5 min read Early Robotics, Undergrad Orion ~ A Robust Mobile Base Curt March 16, 2025 This is going to be a pretty short post as I don't have much content for this bot. Orion was…
17 min read Early Robotics, Undergrad, Machine Learning Triclops the Spinbot ~ Learning from Failure Curt March 10, 2025 Triclops is another one of my incomplete projects. It started while I was a freshman at Milwaukee School of Engineering…
24 min read Early Robotics Building RoverBot ~ An Arduino-Based Robot Curt March 2, 2025 RoverBot is an RC car hack gone wrong (but with plenty of lessons learned along the way). Started in high school, revisited in undergrad, and tuned up again after a move to California.
17 min read Early Robotics, Project Kits Next Steps with Robotics Kits ~ Parallax BOE-Bot Curt February 23, 2025 After I worked with the LEGO Mindstorms kit (see my post here), I moved on to BOE-Bot, an educational robotics kit…
8 min read Early Robotics, Project Kits Next Steps with Robotics Kits ~ LEGO Mindstorms Curt February 23, 2025 A disclaimer before I begin. My thoughts on robotics kits are limited and dated. Limited…
23 min read Early Robotics, Project Kits My Intro to Robots ~ BEAM Robotics Curt February 23, 2025 What is BEAM robotics anyway? When I first started robotics, I was quite intimidated by the concept of programming. My…